How to Detect Duplicate Content

Why have your site slapped by an update due to duplicate content? I recently got some duplicate content from one of my blogs. In short someone stole my content. I communicated to them and they pulled it down immediately. Here is how to detect:

1. Use Copyscape: Enter your urls and it will inform you if there is any copied content from your website.

2. Use Google Alert: Enter the title or an exact sentence from your content in Google Alert. Make sure you put the sentence in quotes for exact match.

3. Check your trackbacks if you use Akismet.

4. Go to Google's Webmaster Tools and check out links to your content.

If someone posts your content on their site and trying to contact the site owner doesn't work, you can contact the offender’s web host and they could ask the site owner to remove the material on your behalf.

11 Oct 12 12:34 pm
Thanks akowally for posting how to detect duplicate content which is very useful for content writing as content used to become poor if duplication of words found in it. Content's popularity is also decreased due to duplication of the words or phrases. Plagium and duplichecker are others to try....

23 Oct 12 10:59 am
Thanks a lot for sharing this nice post. I think this is a must-read because of its informative content. It really pays a lot of effort to create a good article or post so duplicating it easily is bit rough to the heart.

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fergussonimPosts: 20Joined: 20 Sep 12Trust:

31 Oct 12 3:34 am

akowally wrote:Why have your site slapped by an update due to duplicate content? I recently got some duplicate content from one of my blogs. In short someone stole my content. I communicated to them and they pulled it down immediately. Here is how to detect:

1. Use Copyscape: Enter your urls and it will inform you if there is any copied content from your website.

2. Use Google Alert: Enter the title or an exact sentence from your content in Google Alert. Make sure you put the sentence in quotes for exact match.

3. Check your trackbacks if you use Akismet.

4. Go to Google's Webmaster Tools and check out links to your content.

All the best and let's keep penguin out of our sites.

hi, great information provided. thanks. dear, i am using copyscape and it is working for me quite well.

31 Jan 13 5:58 am
Yes, I used Copyscape to check the article content from my article writers since it is the most popular plagiarism checker.

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angela.adam11Posts: 16Joined: 22 May 13Trust:

23 Jul 13 12:57 pm
Very Informative & great tips.Thank you so much for sharing.

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marketing29Posts: 83Joined: 26 Jun 13Trust:

29 Jul 13 11:53 am
I find Google Webmaster as the best tool to find the duplicate content for the website. It even helps to find the missing meta description of the webpage and duplicate title for the links. Go with Google Webmaster Tools, its good to use for the issues of the website.

30 Jul 13 5:02 pm
I was looking for the name "copyscape" Thank you. As long as your not doing it, really don't worry about it I feel. Google will always credit where it found the original content first. Just make sure your ping your work so Google indexes it straight away.

27 Sep 13 9:54 amCopyscape is the best solution for online plagiarism detection and checking the uniqueness of your content.

As for spotting duplicate titles and meta descriptions, WebMeUp can be of great help. Click here to learn more about this feature of the tool.

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colesraymondPosts: 2Joined: 18 Sep 13Trust:

09 Oct 13 12:35 pm

akowally wrote:Why have your site slapped by an update due to duplicate content? I recently got some duplicate content from one of my blogs. In short someone stole my content. I communicated to them and they pulled it down immediately. Here is how to detect:

1. Use Copyscape: Enter your urls and it will inform you if there is any copied content from your website.

2. Use Google Alert: Enter the title or an exact sentence from your content in Google Alert. Make sure you put the sentence in quotes for exact match.

3. Check your trackbacks if you use Akismet.

4. Go to Google's Webmaster Tools and check out links to your content.

All the best and let's keep penguin out of our sites.

Thanks for sharing very amazing and helpful point about detect duplicate content, really very thanks for sharing......

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ray48021Posts: 16Joined: 14 Feb 10Trust:

16 Oct 13 4:23 pm
Very good advice and tips on using Copyscape and Google Webmaster tools!!!